Robert Spencer’s video on the British “Islam is Peace” campaign should be expanded to a 30-45 minute short. It would be well worth it. After all, this campaign, costing no doubt many tens of millions of dollars, is an important weapon of the attempt to fool English people and prolong their unwariness and confusion and even diffidence about discussing their entirely justified fears of and suspicions about Islam. And since the campaign is generic — that is, since it represents the only thing that Muslims engaged in such propaganda can do — if Robert Spencer answers, point by point, each of those five parts that make up this orwellian “islamispeace” campaign, he will have done it not only for England, but for all English-speaking countries where similar, if less obvious, efforts are underway. Do it now, in a clear and easily viewed form, and it will be done.
Now let’s all imagine that we are Muslims, Believers living in the West. Muslims are not “monolithic,” we are told. No. You may come from Pakistan and I from Somalia, and someone is here from Algeria, and someone else from Yemen, and so on. But we all share the same faith, a faith that is a religion, a politics, an economics, a system of artistic censorship, a guide to personal hygiene, a manual of etiquette, a guide to Dealing With Non-Muslims, a clothing manual, a guide to what are the permissible limits of thought and especially of thought about Islam and Muhammad, and so on. It’s a Total System. It is unrecognized as such by most Infidels because what they know of as religion, what they think of as religion, is not a Total System.
And while Christianity is the other faith that makes universalist claims, it has not always, and certainly does not now, push those claims incessantly everywhere there are Christians. It does not think it right and proper to use violence against all those who resist the complete domination of Christianity or who choose to leave the faith. It does not regulate every area of life. It does not contain a politics (“it renders unto Caeser what is Caesar’s”) or a geopolitics. As for other faiths, while in Hinduism and Judaism informed converts are welcome, there is no campaign equivalent to Da’wa, nor is there anything like the Total System or violence of Islam. Islam seeks the uninformed convert, the person who really doesn’t know the full story of Islam, but who is inveigled into reciting the Shahada, told he is now a Muslim, and then by slow degrees is taken carefully in hand and made much of by Muslims who watch his every move and guide his every step.
So there you are, a Muslim living in New Jersey or Michigan. What kind of campaign would you offer? Well, you’d carry on such a campaign in your own way, wouldn’t you? If Infidels at work, or the parents of your children’s schoolmates, are bold enough to ask you about Islam, you would first tell them all about Ramadan, and then about prayers. The very word “prayers” implies, to Christians, that the same kind of prayers to the same kind of deity are being invoked. But the prostrations to a whimsical Allah who interferes with life at every turn are not the same. Everything depends, inshallah, on Allah. The effects of that attitude are many on, for example, Muslim economic performance, or on the ability within Islam to foster the free and skeptical inquiry required not for mere technology, but for the enterprise of pure science, and also for the development of human thought.
Think for a minute and imagine yourself a Muslim living in the West. You too would wish to convince others that “Jihad” has nothing to do with violence, and is in fact a struggle against “oppression” and “injustice.” This will be taken, you know, by non-Muslims to mean whatever it is they mean when they use the words “injustice” and “oppression.” And who could be for, rather than against, “injustice” and “oppression”? Whereas Muslims know exactly what, in Islam, these words mean: they mean all the attempts by non-Muslims to put up obstacles to the spread, and ultimate dominance, of Islam. That is what, for a billion Muslims, constitutes “oppression” and “injustice.” That is what they are fighting against in Great Britain. They are fighting against it right now through their islamispace campaign, with those glossy pictures on the side of the busses, and those expensive television ads, and all the rest of it.
Yes, they are conducting Jihad. They are attempting to befog the minds of non-Muslims, to confuse them, to prevent them from beginning to look at Islam steadily and whole. They are attempting to prevent them from learning the truth about its tenets and attitudes, its history, and the present behavior, everywhere that Muslims exist in numbers sufficient to attempt to impose their will, whether in the Lands of the Infidel, the Dar al-Harb or “House of War,” or in the already Muslim-dominated Dar al-Islam, which is now the House of Peace. It is the House of Peace because, you see, there is no need for war once Islam triumphs — which of course isn’t quite true, because then there are those remaining pesky non-Muslims to discriminate against, to harry, to humiliate, to degrade, to render physically insecure, to do everything possible either to drive them out, or to keep them from multiplying or serving as an attractive and therefore dangerous example to the Muslims around them.
We are in a war. The war is not to be determined by what happens in Iraq Tarbaby Iraq, that is, the squandering of men and money and materiel and energies and attention while preventing us from coming to our senses. If this campaign in Great Britain, probably financed by those deep Saudi and other oil-rich Arab pockets, succeeds, and if all such campaigns succeed in delaying the day of recognition, the fateful, civilization-wide and not merely individual, anagnorisis, it will be a very bad thing.
There are at this point not many people fully capable of seeing the whole thing, grasping the whole thing. Spread to as many as possible what they have to say. Support them in any way you can. And learn as much as you can yourself, so you cannot be fooled, cannot be bested. Become dangerously well-informed and, therefore, implacable in your view.